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This book informs an international audience of teachers, scholars and policymakers about the development of learning progressions for primary and secondary geography education in various countries and regions of the world. The book represents an important contribution to learning progressions research and practice. The different chapters explore how curriculum standards and frameworks in different countries portray progress and sophistication in the learning of geography. The book compares educational systems and how teachers and curriculum developers use the concept of “learning progression” to guide educational practices. As an approach to educational research, learning progressions of...
Young People: Cross-cultural views and futures highlights student voices from multiple perspectives and diverse sociocultural contexts.
This book shares with an international audience of teachers, scholars, and policymakers the experience of pedagogical practices to facilitate sustainability in the world. Sustainability is seen here as a journey toward the end state of sustainable development. Therefore, the authors contribute different roads to engage teachers and students with pedagogical discourse. Overall, the book demonstrates the value of powerful knowledge through action-oriented learning based on a bottom-up process. Consequently, pedagogical practices are understood as the instructional approaches based on a social constructivist model in which active learning is performed with student-to-student engagement. Seconda...
This book provides a new and definitive overview of customer experience and how it can be managed and enhanced in one of the most dynamic industries in the world—the service industry. Its highly qualified international team of contributors ensures that it adopts a global perspective, and clearly outlines the key theoretical perspectives of customer experience, covering customer experience both from demand and supplier perspectives. Fully informed by the latest research, it explores different country contexts and how they impact upon the customer experience; investigates the social, cultural and economic dimensions of customer experience; provides case studies from a wide range of service industry sectors; and includes industry perspectives and examples.
This book is an initiative presented by the Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union. It focuses particularly on what has been learned from geospatial projects and research from the past decades of implementing geospatial technologies (GST) in formal and informal education. The objective of this publication is to inform an international audience of teachers, professionals, scholars, and policymakers about the state of the art and prospects of geospatial practices (GPs) as organized activities that use GST and lessons learned in relation to geographical education. GST make up an advanced body of knowledge developed by practitioners of geographic information...
La praxis de la geografía contemporánea nos sitúa ante la producción disciplinar en cuanto a sus elementos teóricos y prácticos, que se relacionan directamente con las personas que los producen, respondiendo a la óptica de quienes vienen desarrollando el conocimiento de la disciplina. Este primer tomo nos invita a comprender perspectivas del pensamiento y categorías espaciales, así como también a observar la deriva de los procesos urbanos.
La praxis de la geografía contemporánea nos sitúa ante la producción disciplinar en cuanto a sus elementos teóricos y prácticos, que se relacionan directamente con las personas que los producen, respondiendo a la óptica de quienes vienen desarrollando el conocimiento de la disciplina. Este segundo tomo nos invita a observar procedimientos y búsqueda de logros en los aprendizajes de geografía, que las experiencias sean pertinentes y con sentido, de modo que la formación sea de calidad y responda a las actuales necesidades.
El Programa de Educación Geográfica de la Universidad de La Serena, en conjunto con la Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias Geográficas y el Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, organizaron los días jueves 7 y viernes 8 de Mayo del 2009 el Seminario Presente y Futuro de la Educación Geográfica en Chile, realizado en el Campus Andrés Bello de la Universidad de La Serena. Este libro recoge las ponencias presentadas en dicho seminario.
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